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Established in 1932. Published by @BFI. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll.
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NEW ISSUE: more of the greatest films you’ve never seen.As chosen by Alice Rohrwacher, Steven Soderbergh, Jane Schoenbrun, Mike Leigh, Asif Kapadia, Amy Taubin and many more. Out for subscribers on Monday, on newsstands from Thursday. See what's inside:
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The Romanian director combines three hours of sketches, cabaret, comedy and AI morphing imagery for his riff on the Dracula myth – the film is so ironically aloof, it’s hard to pin down. John Bleasdale reviews Radu Jude’s Dracula from #locarno78
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The Romanian director combines three hours of sketches, cabaret, comedy, parody, satire, invective, AI morphing imagery for his riff on the dracula myth – the film is so ironically aloof, it’s hard...
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“The Life of Chuck suggests that Mike Flanagan has become Stephen King’s most sympathetic interpreter on film, in tune with his late narratives of bittersweet attempts to grab momentary joy”. @TheProfRog reviews The Life of Chuck, out now.
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Director Mike Flanagan has proved himself to be King’s most sympathetic interpreter on film with The Life of Chuck, the story of a man’s life in three acts, told backwards.
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“Pitched between Christopher Smith’s looping Triangle (2009) and Graham Hughes’ Hostile Dimensions (2023), the wonderfully inventive, maddeningly self-referential Bulk creates the universe(s) from nothing”. @AntBit reviews Ben Wheatley’s Bulk @edfilmfest
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The British director returns to the lo-fi stylings of his early work with a multiverse sci-fi starring four characters in search of a narrative form.
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In their assured debut about the aftermath of sexual violence, online comedian-turned-director Eva Victor balances defiantly dark humour with melancholy. Katie McCabe reviews Sorry, Baby, in UK cinemas Friday.
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In their assured debut about the aftermath of sexual violence, online comedian-turned-director Eva Victor balances defiantly dark humour with real melancholy.
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“The metaphor of attachment finally isn’t just about visualising co-dependence; what gets under your skin is Tim and Millie’s fear that they’re forgetting how to be close at all”. @NicolasRapold reviews Together, out now.
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A young couple move to the countryside and are overcome by a magnet-like attraction that threatens to fuse their bodies together permanently in Michael Shanks’s gruesome yarn.
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“In Materialists, the complications and psychology are class-based, and Song strives accordingly for screwball velocity, but the dialogue keeps missing the strike zone”. @brofromanother reviews.
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Celine Song’s second feature starring Dakota Johnson as a matchmaker for rich New Yorkers aims for screwball velocity, but the dialogue keeps missing the mark.
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“This assured directorial debut from Shoshannah Stern offers an intimate look at the life and career of Marlee Matlin, the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award”. Peter Adams reviews Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, out now.
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Director Shoshannah Stern’s documentary about Marlee Matlin, the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, offers thought-provoking insights into the history of disability inclusion (and exclusion) in...
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“Zach Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian (2022) is deliberately tricky, with the kind of ending which in the theatre would require the lead actor to take a curtain call and request the audience not give it away to friends”. @AnnoDracula reviews Weapons.
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All but one child from the same Pennsylvania elementary school class disappears overnight in this twisty creeper from Barbarian director Zach Cregger.
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“If all The Naked Gun’s expertly executed gags and heroically numbskulled exchanges aren’t enough to save Hollywood comedy, then surely nothing can”. @jandersonesque reviews The Naked Gun, out now.
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Akiva Schaffer’s police-procedural reboot is refreshingly silly and expertly paced, with Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson fully committing to the bit.
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“Claude Barras’s follow-up to his justly celebrated 2016 debut My Life as a Courgette shares with that film a commitment to placing its big-eyed, brightly painted clay-model innocents in dark corners of the real world”. @nickkinocritic reviews Savages.
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An 11-year-old rescues an orangutan orphaned by loggers in Claude Barras’s unsurprising but vibrantly designed follow-up to 2016 hit My Life as a Courgette.
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“The film’s compression of such a range of emotional states into a tightly edited 92 minutes can feel nerve-wracking and suffocating”. Phil Concannon reviews work drama Late Shift, out now.
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Director Petra Biondina Volpe captures the chaos and pressure of a night shift at an understaffed hospital in a cinematic tribute to nurses that’s elevated by the unflashy skill of Leonie Benesch.
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"Taking a leaf from Roland Barthes, Haugerud vividly captures the dizzying highs and lows of first love". @joseph_fahim reviews Dreams (Sex Love), the final film in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo Stories trilogy. Out Friday.
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Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s rich trilogy of films exploring modern relationships concludes beautifully with the story of Johanne, a 17-year-old who grapples with her unrequited love for...
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Two siblings are taken into the care of Laura, a foster parent obsessed with bringing her deceased child back to life, in Danny and Michael Philippou’s impressive follow-up to 2022’s Talk to Me. @AnnoDracula reviews Bring Her Back, out now.
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Two siblings are taken into the care of Laura, a foster parent obsessed with bringing her deceased child back to life, in Danny and Michael Philippou’s impressive follow-up to 2022’s Talk to Me.
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“With his two documentary features about the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Mstyslav Chernov has established himself as a leading cinematic chronicler of modern warfare”. @NicolasRapold reviews 2,000 Meters to Andriivka, out Friday
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Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing follow-up to his documentary 20 Days in Mariupol recognises the bravery of Ukraine soldiers, but is clear-eyed about the queasy absurdity of war.
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NEW SPECIAL EDITION OUT NOW. Our 2022 poll results, available in print again after the sell-out original issue. Featuring every poll introduction from 1952 to date, together for the first time. Available on newsstands and at now
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“A little bit of Speed (1994), a little bit of Saw (2004), a lot of sweaty stunt performers; in a movie that wears its transnational aspirations proudly, [Willem] Dafoe provides some brand-name gravitas”. @brofromanother reviews Zero, out now.
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The Congolese director blends a bit of Speed (1994) and Saw (2004) for a lightweight but exciting story of two unlucky Americans who wake up in Dakar with bombs strapped to their chests.
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“The reason that First Steps must complicate and darken its entertainingly gee-whiz tone is so its ensemble can eventually hang out with the other denizens of the Marvel Universe”. @brofromanother reviews.
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It’s a pleasure to watch the super-charged dynamics of the Fantastic Four, but attempts to fit this retrofuturistic family unit into the wider ‘Marvel cinematic universe’ feel clumsy.
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Debut director Saule Bliuvaite contrasts the bleakness of a Lithuanian town with the hopes of young teens who get involved with a sinister modelling agency in this richly cinematic Locarno prizewinner. Stephanie Bunbury reviews Toxic, out this Friday
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Debut director Saule Bliuvaite contrasts the bleakness of a Lithuanian town with the hopes of young teens who get involved with a sinister modelling agency in this richly cinematic Locarno prizewin...
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